Richard Shelby actually said...

"For some, the Commission's report represents a comprehensive record of the crisis. For me, it represents a missed opportunity."

"So while the bank crisis grew underneath their feet, they continued to sleep in a sense or look the other way."

"The Commission's statutory mission was, and I will quote, 'to examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States.'"

"Our Nation's debt, as the Chairman has alluded to, is on an unsustainable path. We all know this."